“These are my people”: How Coloradans are helping get vital aid to Ukraine — and planning longer-term support

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“These are my people”: How Coloradans are helping get vital aid to Ukraine — and planning longer-term support
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Coloradans looking to help the people of war-ravaged Ukraine are finding ways to support relief efforts on the ground there through organizations based in the U.S., including Ukraine TrustChain, Project C.U.R.E. and Ukrainians of Colorado.

Anna Blinstein, a middle-school math teacher at Mackintosh Academy Boulder, emigrated from the city of Odesa in southern Ukraine in 1988 at the age of 8.

Together with her friend Katherine Chabolla, who works as a product manager for Airbnb in Boulder, Blinstein decided to take action to help those suffering in Ukraine by working with a volunteer network that is raising money and providing direct aid overseas. In trying to find someone on the ground in Ukraine to bring baby formula to a hospital in Kyiv, Cherkasskiy said he realized the sacrifices people still living in that nation’s capital were willing to make — and he was determined to find ways to fund them to help others.

A man rides a bicycle past destroyed vehicles and an apartment building in Yahidne, near of Dnipro, Ukraine, on Tuesday, April 12, 2022.Other Coloradans are banding together to help Ukraine through Centennial-based Project C.U.R.E., a nonprofit that delivers medical supplies and equipment across the world.

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